XPeng introduces its AI chip for autonomous driving

During its AI Day event in Guangzhou, China, XPeng announced a new AI Turing chip to power its future autonomous driving system. The announcement comes alongside its advanced EREV system.

The AI Turing chip isn't just for cars. It's said to be useful in other applications like robots and even flying cars. Yes, they really said that.

Anyway, the chip is customized to support LLMs thanks to its 40-core processor. XPeng believes it will provide enough computing power to meet the growing demand for autonomous driving. When integrated into a car, the chip will be solely responsible for the autonomous driving system, while the general-purpose chips will be tasked with the rest of the car's functionalities. This way, all systems will have plenty of computing power to go around.

The AI Turing chip will be coupled with the Canghai neural network. The platform is specifically designed for an L4 autonomous driving system. The Canghai Platform boosts communication bandwidth by 33x and accelerates the camera's image processing by 12x.

Ultra series cars will adopt several Turing chips and use the Canghai Platform, enough to power a fleet of robotaxis. These will have up to 3,000 TOPS of computing power and L4 autonomous driving capabilities.

XPeng has been recognized as one of the leading companies working on autonomous driving in China, but its latest announcement is nothing short of ambitious. We are eager to see how this pans out.

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